Synopsis
Electrician Atli his star gazer wife Maria and 19-year-old daughter Anna make a regular family in
Reykjavík. Life is easy going and predictable. A bit too predictable for Atli who looks for excitement
outside the home. When María dies, alone on a stargazing trip they should have taken
together, Atli’s, and Anna’s lives fall apart, they must battle their sorrow and find a new way
forward.
Director's Comment
The Mountain is about good ordinary but imperfect people. We all know love, sorrow, remorse and sadness. And most of us are a little clumsy and crazy at times. Therefore, it should be easy for us to follow and understand Atli’s journey through the path of accepting his wife’s death.
This is a dramatic story with a serious subject but not without comic and funny elements.
This is also a story about stars, light, nature and the universe where these elements play kind of a side story.
Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir
Director
